agle600 Actel Corporation, agle600 Datasheet - Page 5

• Manufacturer Part Number: agle600
• Description: Iglooe Low-power Flash Fpgas With Flash*freeze Technology
• Manufacturer: Actel Corporation

1 – IGLOOe Device Family Overview
General Description
The IGLOOe family of flash FPGAs, based on a 130-nm flash process, offers the lowest power FPGA,
a single-chip solution, small footprint packages, reprogrammability, and an abundance of
advanced features.
The Flash*Freeze technology used in IGLOOe devices enables entering and exiting an ultra-low-
power mode while retaining SRAM and register data. Flash*Freeze technology simplifies power
management through I/O and clock management with rapid recovery to operation mode.
The Low Power Active capability (static idle) allows for ultra-low-power consumption while the
IGLOOe device is completely functional in the system. This allows the IGLOOe device to control
system power management based on external inputs (e.g., scanning for keyboard stimulus) while
consuming minimal power.
Nonvolatile flash technology gives IGLOOe devices the advantage of being a secure, low power,
single-chip solution that is live at power-up (LAPU). IGLOOe is reprogrammable and offers time-to-
market benefits at an ASIC-level unit cost.
These features enable designers to create high-density systems using existing ASIC or FPGA design
flows and tools.
IGLOOe devices offer 1 kbit of on-chip, programmable, nonvolatile FlashROM storage as well as
clock conditioning circuitry based on 6 integrated phase-locked loops (PLLs). IGLOOe devices have
up to 3 million system gates, supported with up to 504 kbits of true dual-port SRAM and up to 620
user I/Os.
M1 IGLOOe devices support the high-performance, 32-bit Cortex-M1 processor developed by ARM
for implementation in FPGAs. Cortex-M1 is a soft processor that is fully implemented in the FPGA
fabric. It has a three-stage pipeline that offers a good balance between low-power consumption
and speed when implemented in an M1 IGLOOe device. The processor runs the ARMv6-M
instruction set, has a configurable nested interrupt controller, and can be implemented with or
without the debug block. Cortex-M1 is available for free from Actel for use in M1 IGLOOe FPGAs.
The ARM-enabled devices have Actel ordering numbers that begin with M1AGLE and do not
support AES decryption.
Flash*Freeze Technology
The IGLOOe device offers unique Flash*Freeze technology, allowing the device to enter and exit
ultra-low-power Flash*Freeze mode. IGLOOe devices do not need additional components to turn
off I/Os or clocks while retaining the design information, SRAM content, and registers. Flash*Freeze
technology is combined with in-system programmability, which enables users to quickly and easily
upgrade and update their designs in the final stages of manufacturing or in the field. The ability of
IGLOOe V2 devices to support a wide range of core voltage (1.2 V to 1.5 V) allows further reduction
in power consumption, thus achieving the lowest total system power.
When the IGLOOe device enters Flash*Freeze mode, the device automatically shuts off the clocks
and inputs to the FPGA core; when the device exits Flash*Freeze mode, all activity resumes and
data is retained.
The availability of low-power modes, combined with reprogrammability, a single-chip and single-
voltage solution, and availability of small-footprint, high pin-count packages, make IGLOOe
devices the best fit for portable electronics.
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